Friday, September 9, 2016

Needles and pins-a

Former (only) BBC Editorial Director Roger Mosey is the latest former big beast to poke at how the News Department is doing under James Harding.

In a review of former DG Mark Thompson's book on political rhetoric, he puzzles over "the corporation’s curiously robotic EU referendum coverage." Full piece here.

Was is true that one senior on-screen editor wanted to construct a report that featured two piles of books - actual copies of pro-Brexit and pro-Remain economic assessments by accredited think-tanks - and was told to leave it out ?